MI6 CODEBREAKER Gareth Williams probably locked himself into the
sports bag where his naked, dead body was discovered in 2010, Scotland
Yard has found.
After conducting a review of the case, Scotland Yard has found Williams
probably locked himself into the sports bag and was not the victim of a
hit by the security services, Britain's Daily Telegraph reports.
Westminster Coroner, Dr Fiona Wilcox, said earlier this year she could
not rule out the involvement of the security services in the death. That
ruling sparked a review of the case by Scotland Yard’s murder squad
which involved re-interviewing Williams' colleagues from MI6 and taken
DNA samples.
Williams’s naked body was found in a red North
Face gym bag in an empty bath in his apartment in Pimlico, central
London in August 2010. The keys to the red bag were found in the bottom
of the bag.
Detectives had believed that someone else must have
locked the codebreaker in the bag and launched a search for a mysterious
Mediterranean couple, who were later ruled out of inquiries.
Williams’s
colleagues at MI6 had failed to report him missing for a week and
failed to turn over nine memory sticks and a black bag under his desk at
their Vauxhall Cross headquarters, sparking rumours of a cover-up.
Detectives now believe he probably died alone,
The Telegraph reports.
A
source close to the inquiry told the newspaper: "They have been unable
to find any trace of anyone who should not have been in the flat and
have every reason to believe that Gareth may have climbed into the bag
himself and been unable to get out."
Two experts tried a total of
400 times to lock themselves into the bag and one claimed that even
world-famous escapologist Harry Houdini "would have struggled" to
squeeze himself inside.
But days after the inquest verdict a
retired Army sergeant demonstrated that it was possible to climb into a
similar North Face bag and lock it from the inside.
Scotland Yard
detectives have now been able to repeat the experiment with some slight
differences to the way the bag was locked, but which fits with how
Gareth Williams was found in August 2010.
Dr Wilcox, a former negligence barrister, had ruled that the lack of hand and footprints in the bathroom was "significant".
The Telegraph understands police were able to identify around 300 fingerprints in the flat.
The
coroner also dismissed speculation that Williams died as a result of
some sort of "auto-erotic activity". But detectives now believe that is
probably a likely option, the newspaper reports.
The inquest had
heard that Williams, a codebreaker for GCHQ who was on secondment to
MI6, had been found in his boxer shorts and tied to his bed by his
landlord and landlady in Cheltenham a few years earlier.
Video
footage found on a mobile phone in the deceased's flat showed Williams
dressed in nothing but black leather boots as he "wiggled and gyrated"
for the camera.
He browsed self-bondage websites and sites about
claustrophilia - the love of enclosure - on his computers and phone and
was looking at fetish websites days before his death.
He also kept
pictures of drag queens on his computer and had 20,000 pounds ($31,000)
worth of designer women's clothing in his apartment as well as women’s
shoes and wigs.
Friends and family were upset at speculation
Williams may have been gay and believed "some agency specialising in the
dark arts" was behind his killing.
In her ruling, Dr Wilcox said
there was no evidence to suggest the spy was a transvestite "or
interested in any such thing". The make-up found in his apartment was
more likely to reflect his interest in fashion and the wigs were "far
more consistent with dress-up such as attendance at a manga conference",
she said.
The suggestion that his interest in female footwear could have been of a sexual nature, was not unusual, Dr Wilcox observed.
A
spokesman for the Metropolitan Police said the investigation remained
"active" and that officers were still exploring "a number of lines of
enquiry."
The coroner said it remained a "legitimate line of
inquiry" that the secret services were involved in Williams's death
although there was no firm evidence.
heraldsun.com.au 27 Dec 2012
The political / legal arm of the Masonic brotherhood, will go to incredible lengths to cover up murders of uncomfortable people.
Far from a conspiracy theory, but rather a tactic used as described by an anonymous source from within only described as execution style.
The uneducated herd is supposed to believe that one kills oneself in a sports bag.
Williams no doubt uncovered government secrets that if exposed would implicate a lot of high end officials, something that they could not risk getting out.
Corrupt authorities are part of the conspiracy, where the truth will never be revealed to the masses.
